Andrew Hurley (academic)
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Andrew Hurley is primarily known as an English translator of Spanish literature, having translated a variety of authors, most notably the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges.
Now a retired professor, Hurley had served at the Universidad de Puerto Rico in the English Department. He obtained his doctorate in 1973 from Rice University
(writing on narrative strategies and reader response in the theory of the novel).
Now a retired professor, Hurley had served at the Universidad de Puerto Rico in the English Department. He obtained his doctorate in 1973 from Rice University
Rice University
William Marsh Rice University, commonly referred to as Rice University or Rice, is a private research university located on a heavily wooded campus in Houston, Texas, United States...
(writing on narrative strategies and reader response in the theory of the novel).
Authors translated
- Bartolomé de las CasasBartolomé de Las CasasBartolomé de las Casas O.P. was a 16th-century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar. He became the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially appointed "Protector of the Indians"...
(1474–1566) Spain - Rubén DaríoRubén DaríoFélix Rubén García Sarmiento , known as Rubén Darío, was a Nicaraguan poet who initiated the Spanish-American literary movement known as modernismo that flourished at the end of the 19th century...
(1867–1916) Nicaragua - Jorge Luis BorgesJorge Luis BorgesJorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo , known as Jorge Luis Borges , was an Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator born in Buenos Aires. In 1914 his family moved to Switzerland where he attended school, receiving his baccalauréat from the Collège de Genève in 1918. The family...
(1899–1986) Argentina - Ernesto SabatoErnesto SabatoErnesto Sabato , was an Argentine writer, painter and physicist. According to the BBC he "won some of the most prestigious prizes in Hispanic literature" and "became very influential in the literary world throughout Latin America"...
(1911–2011) Argentina - Margo GlantzMargo GlantzMargo Glantz is a Mexican writer, essayist, critic and academic.- Biography :Margo Glantz's family immigrated to Mexico from Ukraine in the 1920s. Her father, Jacobo Glantz, met her mother, Elizabeth Shapiro in Odessa, where they married...
(1930–) Mexico - Heberto PadillaHeberto PadillaHeberto Padilla was a Cuban poet. The Padilla Affair was named after him. He was born in Puerta de Golpe, Pinar del Río, Cuba. His first book of poetry, Las rosas audaces , was published in 1948...
(1932–2000) Cuba - Armando ValladaresArmando ValladaresArmando Valladares is a former prisoner in Cuba turned United States ambassador to the United Nations.-Political prisoner:Valladares was a Cuban Postal Bank employee . He was arrested when he refused to display a sign on his desk that promoted communism...
(1937–) Cuba - Antonio MartorellAntonio MartorellAntonio Martorell is a well known Puerto Rican painter, graphic artist, writer and radio and television personality. He regularly exhibits in Puerto Rico and the United States and participates in arts events around the globe.-Life:...
(1939–) Puerto Rico - Gustavo SáinzGustavo SainzGustavo Sainz is a Spanish language author from Mexico.Born in Mexico City, the son of journalist José Luis Sainz, Gustavo Sainz learned how to read at the age of three from his paternal grandmother, and started publishing his work in the city newspapers at the age of ten...
(1940–) Mexico - Reinaldo ArenasReinaldo ArenasReinaldo Arenas was a Cuban poet, novelist, and playwright who despite his early sympathy for the 1959 revolution, grew critical of and then rebelled against the Cuban government.- Life :...
(1943–1990) Cuba - Ana Lydia VegaAna Lydia VegaAna Lydia Vega is a celebrated Puerto Rican female writer. She has received the Premio Juan Rulfo and the Premio Casa de las Américas . Vega was a professor of French literature and Caribbean studies at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras...
(1946–) Puerto Rico - Edgardo Rodríguez JuliáEdgardo Rodríguez JuliáEdgardo Rodríguez Juliá is a Puerto Rican essayist and novelist.- Bibliography :* La renuncia del héroe Baltasar...
(1946–) Puerto Rico - Luce López-BaraltLuce Lopez-BaraltLuce López-Baralt is a professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at the University of Puerto Rico.-Academic career:Many of her books and articles present for discussion the mystical literature and religious practices of Spain, renaissance and medieval , i.e., both Christian and Muslim...
(19xy–) Puerto Rico - Arturo Pérez-ReverteArturo Pérez-ReverteArturo Pérez-Reverte Gutiérrez is a Spanish novelist and journalist. He worked as a war correspondent for twenty-one years . His first novel, El húsar, set in the Napoleonic Wars, was released in 1986. He is well known outside Spain for his "Alatriste" series of novels...
(1951–) Spain - Julia Navarro (1953–) Spain
- Zoé ValdésZoé ValdésZoé Valdés is a Cuban writer.She studied in the Instituto Superior Pedagógico Enrique José Varona, but never graduated. From 1984 to 1988, she worked at the Delegación de Cuba in UNESCO in Paris, and in the Oficina Cultural de la Misión de Cuba in Paris. From 1990 to 1995, she was an editor of the...
(1959–) Cuba - Cristina Rivera-Garza (1964–) Mexico